"GW" == George Williams writes: >> Then they have to be there in the CFF separately. The H/D can be >> different from the outlines, eg. due to overshoot. GW> What do you mean by overshoot?
GW> Remember tfm metrics are not perfect. There are only 16 possible GW> values for depth or height, and one of these is required to be GW> 0. So in a font with many different glyph sizes the tfm file has GW> already done some kind of grouping operation which can lose a lot GW> of information. GW> All the information about the glyph's shape is contained in its GW> outline. It's going to be far more accurate than a rounded tfm GW> value. No, the glyph height, for example, is used by TeX to put calculate accent positioning over the glyph. And by design, some glyphs like "o" have small "overshoots", which should not lead to a change in caculated accent position. So having glyph dimentions as separate entities (rather than obtained from glyph outline) seems the right thing to do. (added Cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as this discussion is most relevant to that list). Best, v. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
